Apparatus for use in embalming.



W. B. MGOOURTIE. APPARATUS FOR USE IN EMBALMING.

APPLICATION FILED JAN 28, 1908.

Patented Feb. 1, 1910.

B Caw WILLIAM B. MQCOURTIE, 0F SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR USE IN EMBALMING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1, 1910.

Application filed January 28, 1908. Serial No. 413,077.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM 13. M0- Counrin, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatuses for Use in Embalming, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a bulb syringe apparatus having especial availability for divers manners of use by embalmers, although the same may be conveniently utilized for purposes foreign to those of an embalmer or undertaker.

An object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of the character, and for the general purpose, indicated, wherein the parts thereof are few in number, of extreme simplicity and cheapness and in which the conduit for the delivery of the liquid from the receptacle therefor, by reason of an air pressure established within the receptacle, may be constituted by a single length of flexible rubber tubing, devoid of joints from one end to the other thereof; the arrangement being such that what may most commonly be regarded as the flexible delivery tube is freely adjustable endwise through a passage or opening therefor in the stopper of the receptacle for the fluid, whereby the inner, or receptacle-inclosing end of such tubing may have its position closely to the bottom of the receptacle irrespective of the height or dimension of the latter.

Another object is to render the apparatus, by the employment of an endwise reversible bulb in conjunction with one of the flexible tubes employed, adaptable for use, for instance by an embalmer at one time for aspiration or the withdrawing fluids and decomposed matter from the arteries or abdominal cavity, and at another time as an injecting device for introducing the antiseptic embalming fluid into the body. And inasmuch as there is a natural tendency on the part of the flexible tubes,usually soft rubber tubes,-to become collapsed at their intermediate portions which are adjacent their points of engagements through the stopper of the receptacle, another object of the invention is attained by the provision, in combination with the stoppered portion of the receptacle, of a simple, though eiiicient, means for so supporting the intermediate portions of the rubber tubes that they are constrained to have their curvatures adjacent the stopper on such gradually curving lines as to-not only avoid the impeding of the free passages of air or liquid therethrough, but also to prevent the breaking down, and kinking, and as a result thereof the rupturing of the tubes.

The improved apparatus is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and is set forth in the claim.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is a vertical section taken substantially centrally through the apparatus, with the parts thereof arranged for the injection of fluids. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the double valve bulb syringe as in reversed re lation to the tube with which it has connection, and the other tube properly adjusted whereby the apparatus is converted into an aspirator. Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view through the stoppered mouth portion of the receptacle taken on line 3-3, F ig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing a form Of device for supporting the rubber tubes and the bends adjacent the stoppered portion of the receptacle. Fig.5 is a perspec tive view of a device of another specific form having substantially the same purpose as that shown in Fig. 4.

The present device or apparatus includes a receptacle which advantageously may be a bottle as represented at A, provided in the mouth of which is a stopper B which is preferably constituted by comparatively soft rubber. The said stopper has two passages 66 and Z) extending therethrough from top to bottom parallel with the stopper axis.

Through the passage 0, is fitted, and preferably secured by cement the extremity of a tube G with which, at its outer end is connected a collapsible bulb D, the same having in its opposite end, check valves '0 and to, one closing in an outward direction and the other closing in an inward direction, this bulb, with its valves, and the relative arrangement of the latter being as common in bulb syringes, with the exception however that both passaged ends of the valved bulb has endwise extended stubs 00, at for connection, by either thereof at the election of the user, with the bulb carrying tube D, so that, as predetermined, the bulb and tube C may have a suction action or an air forcing action, relatively to the suction chamber. In the other passage 6, through the stopper, is fitted an intermediate portion of the liquid delivery tube G, the same being most advantageously constituted by a single length of soft rubber tubing, requiring no joints from the one end to the other thereof; and said jointless rubber tubing is freely adjustable or movable, at its intermediate portion so that the receptacle inelosed end of the tube may be positioned comparatively near to, or quite far from, the stopper, to accord with different depths of bottles, so that when desired the inner open end of the tube may be close to the bottom of the receptacle for the ejection of the liquid from the latter and even when such liquid is becoming nearly exhausted, or so that the lower end of the tube may be drawn up high in the receptacle as shown in Fig. 2. The free outer end of the tube, the position of which is to be changed by the hand of the operator of the apparatus for the proper presentation thereof is provided with a delivery nozzle or ap pliance (Z; and adjacent the latter the flexible rubber tubing is provided with a shut-0H device, as indicated at f.

As apparent, and without any extended description, the operation is most simple, it being especially pointed out that, with the parts arranged and adjusted as in Fig. 1, the air in suitably ,high compression in the receptacle above the liquid, as established through the tube 13 by the repeated squeezings of the bulb will most freely and directly pass from the bottle into and through the tube for the required utilization,-no liquid ever passing through the bulb and the tube directly connected therewith; and the delivery tube being j ointless from end to end and having the passage therethrough in nowise contracted or obstructed, the liquid delivery may be copious to the maximum, as is highly desirable, and by the absence of oints in the tube its long range of adjustments through the apertured stopper is in no way prevented or obstructed.

By reversing the bulb D, end for end, and upwardly drawing what was formerly the delivery tube G, to the positions, and for the.

conditions, rendered apparent in Fig. 2, the device is converted into an aspirating device,-the action of the bulb through the tube exhausting air from, and creating a vacuum in the receptacle, while, by such vacuum and through the tube G, the liquid or semi liquid contents of a subject to be prepared for embalming may be brought into the bottle.

In Figs. 1 and 4, the means for supporting the intermediate portions of the rubber tubes so that their curvatures adjacent the stopper are on gradually curved lines for the purpose hereinbefore indicated are shown as consisting of single pieces of spring wire, each having its intermediate portion return bent, as indicated at 7' to become of elongated Uform, while its extremities are bent into adjacent coils 2' through which the tube is engaged, while the portion of this device at the return bend 71, and farthest from the coils has a support or anchorage on the elastic stopper by being crowded either down into the apertures a and 1) between the aperture walls and the wall of the tube therein, (elasticity permitting) or these devices may be engaged or secured on the upper outer parts of the stopper.

In Fig. 5 another form of the device is shown as consisting of a wire, the middle portion of which is formed into a coil m to encircle the upper portion of the stopper, while its extremities n are oppositely and upwardly extended and made with rests 0 to be engaged by and to support the portions of the tube which are outside of and adjacent the stopper.

I claim An apparatus for use in embalming, comprising a fluid containing receptacle, a. resilient closure for the mouth of said receptacle having parallel openings therethrough, a flexible tube having one end sealed in one of the openings of said closure, and having an atomizing bulb on the other end, and a flexible dispensing tube fitting in the other opening of said closure and adjustable therethrough.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM B. MoC/OURTIE.

lVitnesses G. R. DRISCOLL, S. H. MULRoNn. 

